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ˈsuck-egg
[f. suck- + egg n.1]
a. An animal that is reputed to suck eggs, e.g. a weasel, cuckoo; fig. an avaricious person.
b. A young fellow; slang. ‘a silly person’ (Barrère & Leland).
1609R. Armin Maids of More-Cl. C iij b, Where's this suck-egge, wheres Jack a boy? 16..Middleton, etc. Old Law iii. ii, This beard cannot get children, you lank suck-eggs, Unless such weasels come from court to help us. c1640[Shirley] Capt. Underwit. v. i. in Bullen Old Pl. (1883) II. 395 Con. Is there not a weesill crept into your Chamber, lady?..A Mounsier sucklegge [sic]. Sis. Do you take my Chamber for a henns neast? 1685Crowne Sir C. Nice ii, A Scholler Madam? a Schollers Egg—emptyed by old suck-Eggs, of all that Nature gave me. 1836Haliburton Clockm. Ser. i. v. (1839) 12, I guess, said he, if General Campbell knew what sort of a man that are magistrate was, he'd disband him pretty quick, he's a regular suck-egg. 1851Sternberg Dial. Northants. 109 Suck, Suck-egg, the cuckoo; also applied to a stupid fellow.
c. attrib. That sucks eggs. Also U.S. dial. (chiefly South and Midland), used to designate a dog regarded as the type of viciousness or worthlessness (also transf.).
1631Quarles Hist. Samson Wks. (Grosart) II. 141 The suck-egge Weasell. 1658Rowland tr. Moufet's Theat. Ins. 934 Of the first kinde is the Flesh-fly, Horse-fly, Oxe-fly, the Suck-egge-fly. 1892Dialect Notes I. 232 He is as mean as a suck-egg dog. 1927P. Green Unto Such Glory in One-Act Plays for Stage & Study 3rd Ser. 104 He's a dirty low-down suck-egg dog. 1931Virginia Q. Rev. Jan. 102 Hayes got up and slunk off like a suck-egg dog caught in the hen-house. 1958‘W. Henry’ Seven Men at Mimbres Springs ix. 107 But I will be a suck-egg son of a bitch if I can't tie my good arm behind me, stand on my bad leg only, and still whup me the living daylights out of any skinny little Alabama bast—. |